Abstract
This study aimed to analyze the elite badminton players’ on-court movements related to contextual variables (game, round, and match status). A total of 18 matches of the Jakarta 2015 World Championship (1,273 points and 5,710 play actions) were examined by univariate and bivariate analyses. Significant differences were found when comparing the players’ on-court movements related to game, round, and match status (p < 0.05). All movements were executed more frequently in game 2, with the exception of diagonal large backward left (DLBL), diagonal short backward left (DSBL), diagonal short backward right (DSBR), and longitudinal short backward (LSB). The results obtained related to the round showed that longitudinal large backward (LLB) was the most frequent footwork in R1/16 and R1/2, diagonal short forward left (DSFL) was the most frequent one for R1/4, and transversal short right (TSR) was the most used movement for the final round. According to match status, no movement (NM) was the most common situation before hitting the shuttlecock at any moment during the match. This study shows how contextual variables modulate the elite players’ on-court movements. This information could be valuable for coaches and players, allowing them to better understand the players’ behavior in a competition, which could be used to design more specific training tasks and prepare match strategies in order to improve the players’ performance in competitions.
Highlights
Badminton is one of the most popular racket sport in the world (Phomsoupha and Laffaye, 2015)
no movement (NM) shows lower values for game 2, which could be due to the onset of the players’ fatigue or the technical modifications affected by fatigue, which would imply the execution of very slow on-court movements or not as fast as needed along the court for them to recover the defensive position (Girard and Millet, 2009)
Data obtained for plane gathered on-court movement according to match status showed significant differences (χ2 = 0.036, p = 0.048), which was similar to the results of Valldecabres et al (2017)
Summary
Badminton is one of the most popular racket sport in the world (Phomsoupha and Laffaye, 2015). Badminton Players’ On-Court Movements knowledge of performance factors is crucial for methodological approaches and for a more general understanding of sport sciences (Drust, 2010). Badminton is a highly explosive and intense sport (Kuntze et al, 2010; Reilly et al, 2013), and players require very fast footwork to reach the shuttlecock and back to the center of the court (Phomsoupha and Laffaye, 2014). Some studies have analyzed the direction of the players’ movement (Weber et al, 2007), indicating that a tennis player performs 72% of his movement along the baseline, 17% forward, and 8% backward. Some studies have analyzed the direction of the players’ movement (Weber et al, 2007), indicating that a tennis player performs 72% of his movement along the baseline, 17% forward, and 8% backward. Hughes and Meyers (2005) analyzed the movement of tennis players and reported that 67% of all movement was initiated with a split step, which is typically timed to coincide closely with the opponent’s ball contact
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